To get an idea of what you can do in Orgmode, a good place to check is the books/publications linked on John Kitchin's page. He's a professor of chemistry who uses Orgmode for lots of different things. Among other things (and also listed on the linked page), he is the author of the org-ref extension that integrates citations and referencing into Orgmode, using the bibtex database:

http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2014/08/08/What-we-ar...

Here is a youtube video demonstrating use of the org-ref extension for citations and references:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyvpSVl4_dg